Yoda-like creature snapped in Borneo

No, it's not a gremlin. It's not Yoda's long-lost cousin. It's a western tarsier (Tarsius bancanus), photographed in the Danum Valley Conservation Area in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.

Among the world's smallest primates, tarsiers are nocturnal and live in south-east Asian rainforests feeding on insects and small vertebrates. Their eyes lack the reflective layer - the tapetum lucidum - which makes cats' eyes shine in torchlight. Each eye is as large as the tarsier's brain to compensate.

The image, Night Eyes, has been highly commended in the Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife, part of this year's Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, curated by the Natural History Museum, London.

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Mike
on October 4, 2010 11:15 AM

Creature Yoda not like. More concentrate on the living visual field. Trust more eyes, must you young Padwan.